> >From time to time I get messages or articles in English where every line
> ends in the symbols "equals 20" At other times, I get items in French
> or Spanish where all accented letters appear in numerical codes. But
> some messages come with the accents shown right.
The =20 problem is due to a format called "print quotable" that is common
on MacIntosh computers using postscript. You can eliminate some, but not
all of the codes by enabling ISO-8859-1 in config. Yarn will strip the
=20 codes that are at the right hand edge of the screen and leave the rest.
The odd character mapping is just an artifact of nonstandard coding. Try
to encourage people to use ISO-8859-1 for latin/slavic/nordic text.
> Can PC-Yarn be configured to translate numeric codes, or is this only
> under the control of the sender? Thanks for your ideas.
Mostly it is under the control of the sender.
-- Larry